Ho Chi Minh City inaugurates a Department of Tourism, the first of its kind nationwide, on October 23 to enhance management in the field.
Ha Noi is undertaking maximum efforts to promote its tourism potential on domestic and international promising markets with a view to attracting more tourists to the city.
A network of various world heritage sites across the nation should act as the basis for Viet Nam to develop its tourism sector, helping to turn the country into an attractive tourist centre in Asia.
For the first time, images of Viet Nam's World Heritage sites are placed alongside those of their counterparts from all over the world to show audiences the link between them.
The Kathina (robe offering) ceremony is being held for the first time at the Khmer pagoda in the Viet Nam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism in Son Tay district, 40km west of Ha Noi’s centre.
Sitting less than 20 kilometers from Ha Noi downtown, Son Dong wood carving village is famous for its meticulous, spiritual products made of wood by devoted and talented craftsmen like statues of Buddha and worship objects used at pagodas and temples. What most impressing those visiting the craft village is perhaps the sounds of wood carving, which can be heard in any corner of the…
More than 1,000 posters introducing the images of Viet Nam's capital city of Ha Noi are being hung on cabins and 24 electronic tables at almost subway stations in Japan.
A French culinary festival themed “Balade en France” is set to take place on October 24-25 at the Equatorial hotel in Ho Chi Minh City.
Thousands of performers from 250 amateur art troupes from all over the country have flocked to the capital city of Ha Noi to take part in the 2014 Chau Van Singing Festival, Nguyen Khac Loi, Deputy Director of the municipal Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said on October 13.
A Viet Nam-Republic of Korea (RoK) culinary festival was held in Ha Noi on October 10 to promote cultural exchange between the two nations.
The city of Ha Noi, which has a history of preserving and promoting the value of the ancient northern Vietnamese traditional Ca Tru singing, has pledged to increase its efforts by calling for more public participation in the city’s Ca Tru clubs.
Con Dao district in the southern province of Ba Ria - Vung Tau greeted nearly 80,000 tourist arrivals from the start of the year, a year-on-year rise of 14.98%, reported the managing board for tourism areas in Con Dao.